Allowing unvaccinated kids around my newborn

First off, if you are anti-vaccinations, go away. I am only interested in the comments from intelligent parents... Aka, not you!

My fundamentalist Christian sister is an anti-vaccination nutcase. But despite this, she is my family, as well as, her 5 unvaccinated children. How long after my child is vaccinated would it be safe to allow her constantly sick children around my newly vaccinated child?

Once again, no agenda pushing or conspiracy theories, please! Just scientifically based facts!!! I cannot stress this enough!

Comments (6)

I think you need to segregate your worries. Being sick and having colds has nothing to do with vaccinations. It is just a part of growing up and vaccinated kids get the just the same. Kids get colds, whether they are vaccinated or not. I would use the same rule for having my child be around sick vaccinated kids as well as sick unvaccinated kids.

As for the vaccination preventable illnesses, that is more of concern. But being unvaccinated does not mean vaccine carrying. I tend to use a what is reasonable approach -- if a diesease is not rampant in the area you are in, I am not going to worry about vaccine status. On the other hand, if it is spreading where I live, I would ask everyone whether they are up to date on that vaccine. That is what I did when my daughter was born around the piggy flu virus of 2009.

I think you need to segregate your worries. Being sick and having colds ...

Posted
10/15/2014

I think you need to segregate your worries. Being sick and having colds has nothing to do with vaccinations. It is just a part of growing up and vaccinated kids get the just the same. Kids get colds, whether they are vaccinated or not. I would use the same rule for having my child be around sick vaccinated kids as well as sick unvaccinated kids.

As for the vaccination preventable illnesses, that is more of concern. But being unvaccinated does not mean vaccine carrying. I tend to use a what is reasonable approach -- if a diesease is not rampant in the area you are in, I am not going to worry about vaccine status. On the other hand, if it is spreading where I live, I would ask everyone whether they are up to date on that vaccine. That is what I did when my daughter was born around the piggy flu virus of 2009.

If there is whooping cough in your area, I would keep your child away until he/she has had the first 3 doses of DTaP (which I think would be 6 months if I remember correctly), because that can be so dangerous for a little baby.

Likewise if you are in an area with a measles outbreak, I might keep my distance until vaccinated (I'd consider the one dose at 12 months to be reasonably protective for this purpose). Same with chickenpox (I have non-vax friends whose kids were exposed to chickenpox, and they were reasonable enough to warn us so we could stay away until the incubation period was up).

For other diseases, I would probably just stay away if the kids are symptomatic. LIke Michelle's Husband said, most of what they have is likely to be colds and not vaccine-preventable anyway.

If there is whooping cough in your area, I would keep your child away until h...

Posted
10/16/2014

If there is whooping cough in your area, I would keep your child away until he/she has had the first 3 doses of DTaP (which I think would be 6 months if I remember correctly), because that can be so dangerous for a little baby.

Likewise if you are in an area with a measles outbreak, I might keep my distance until vaccinated (I'd consider the one dose at 12 months to be reasonably protective for this purpose). Same with chickenpox (I have non-vax friends whose kids were exposed to chickenpox, and they were reasonable enough to warn us so we could stay away until the incubation period was up).

For other diseases, I would probably just stay away if the kids are symptomatic. LIke Michelle's Husband said, most of what they have is likely to be colds and not vaccine-preventable anyway.

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